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Apprenticeships, Skills, Children and Learning Bill

My Lords, I, too, wanted to address the questions of the untoward innovations that have been inserted in this part of the Bill, but I will restrict my remarks to Amendment 130, which substitutes the word "is" for "are" at the top of page 70 without removing the word "which" before it or changing the word "designed" after it. I query whether in properly constructed English information can be "designed" in the sense in which "information" is used in this sentence. I also query whether "which" is the right word to have in front of it, even if you retain the word "designed". The purpose of "which" is to refer us back to the earlier "systems" rather than to the immediately preceding "information". In the essence of good grammar, it surely would have been better to make a more comprehensive amendment than to just substitute one word, which leaves us in a state of grammatical horror.